Posted on 04/24/2013 1:10:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The name of one Boston Marathon bombing suspect was included on U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism databases, but he was not on any watch list that would have prevented him from flying or required additional screening when he left or entered the country, according to intelligence and law enforcement officials.
After the FBI was asked by the Russians in early 2011 to investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible connection to jihadist causes, his name was added to the agency's Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). That is a list of more than 500,000 names of known or suspected foreign and domestic terrorists.
Tsarnaev's name was also included on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list, otherwise known as TIDE, which is maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center.
That list is similar to the TSDB database, but contains more detailed, raw intelligence. The two lists are linked. New intelligence and data on suspects is developed and added to TIDE multiple times a day.
When that happens, the TSDB database also is updated.
Both files are tools for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to share information on terrorism suspects.
About 98 percent of the names on the two lists are foreign citizens, according to officials.
From the lists, the FBI Terrorism Screening Center recommends which names should be put on watch lists used by the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, the State Department and the FBI.
These include "no-fly" and other lists which would require additional screening.
Tsarnaev's name was not added to any of those lists, according to officials.
His name was on a Customs and Border Protection list known as TECS, which is used to detect unusual or suspicious travel, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.
(Excerpt) Read more at security.blogs.cnn.com ...
Boston bomb suspect's name was on classified government watch lists
I think the journalists are mucking things up a bit.
fyi
Now comes this... uh, huh.
See comment # 2.
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Do you know if all the paperwork on al-Harbi was generated in the heat of the moment 4/15, or did he have a national security file before then?
If all of Beck’s paper trail happened after the bombs went off, the most likely explanation IMO is excess of zeal + federal employee incompetence.
If he was “somebody” before 2:50pm 4/15, then the whole thing may be more significant.
LLS
Is competency too much to expect when you only invest a measly
$5 Trillion Dollars in Janetalia's Homeland Scurity Department?
LOL!
Good message.
Beck today is saying that he was already twice on the bad-guy terrorist list before the marathon bombing. It was a big “oops” moment at the hospital, emergency trips by the Saudi ambassador to the WH, etc. Was he their “handler?” Or paymaster? Perhaps.
Or just the unluckiest two-times on the bad boy terrorist list, and he just happened to be at the exact site of the bombing.
Talk about bad luck! Poor guy is just a foot racing fan, minding his business, and BOOM!
REALLY bad luck!
He claimed he did in the Beck video from yesterday. Apparently the new document that classified him as a bad terrorist, referenced an older document from a few years ago that no one can find right now.
Someone check Sandy Burglars pants.
TSA: Stopping 0.00 Terrorists since 2002.
what list was the gay pos muslam that visited the black house and mooooooshelll visited in the hospital on??????
Which I'm not ... and don't want to be.
Well,...she said the mexican border was secure.....also.
“The system worked”- Big Sis
Great question!
LLS
According to NPR, RUSSIA WARNED THE US ABOUT THIS INDIVIDUAL.
FBI interviewed, saw nothing wrong.
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